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Joshua Tree California Holiday Ornament - Jumping Cholla

Joshua Tree California Holiday Ornament - Jumping Cholla

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A teddy-bear cholla with a spiny segment jumping toward you, a red bow caught on the spines. Everyone who has hiked the cholla garden knows exactly how this ends.

The cholla looks soft from a distance, which is its trick. Brush one and a whole segment detaches and rides along on barbed spines that do not come out easily; locals call it the jumping cholla and tell visitors to keep their hands in their pockets. The park's cholla garden is a quarter-mile of them, glowing gold when the sun is low.

The Joshua tree is the famous plant here. The cholla is the one you remember, usually because you touched it.

A souvenir with a warning in it. The bow caught on the spines is the one bit of color, and the one joke every desert hiker will get.

The jumping cholla, the teddy bear cholla, fills the Cholla Cactus Garden in Joshua Tree National Park, the corner of the California desert where every visitor learns to keep their hands in their pockets. This cactus ornament is a Joshua Tree Christmas ornament and Joshua Tree souvenir, a desert ornament for Christmas in Joshua Tree.

Every Joshua Tree ornament ships ready to give. Hang it on the tree, in a window, off a lamp, or send one to the person who misses Joshua Tree most.

3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament, white-backed print, line-drawn in 1880s engraving style, your choice of white or gold gift box.


QUICK FACTS — JOSHUA TREE CA CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — JUMPING CHOLLA

Town: Joshua Tree, California

Founded: Homesteaded late 1800s; national monument 1936; park 1994

Known for: Gateway to Joshua Tree National Park; the Joshua tree forests and monzogranite boulders; Pioneertown (1946); dark skies

Art: Jumping Cholla, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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The town itself is young. Prospectors came for gold and silver in the late 1800s — the Lost Horse Mine was the richest — and cattle ranchers like Bill Keys built homesteads at the desert springs. In 1938 the Small Tract Act handed out five-acre parcels, and “jackrabbit homestead” cabins scattered across the flats. Meanwhile a Pasadena conservationist, Minerva Hoyt, had spent years lobbying to protect the desert’s plants; her campaign won Joshua Tree National Monument in 1936, and in 1994 it became a full national park. The town grew up as the gateway at its door.

Today Joshua Tree is where the Mojave’s strangest tree reaches for the darkest, starriest sky. Our Joshua Tree designs gather that identity — the bear-and-star emblem, the trees, the boulders, the desert night — into wearable form. Joshua Tree — where two deserts meet under California’s darkest sky.

Why People Visit Joshua Tree

People come for the strangeness: trees out of a storybook, boulders made for scrambling, and a night sky so dark the Milky Way throws shadows. Pair the park with the town’s desert-arts scene and you have a high-desert getaway unlike anywhere else in California.

Joshua Tree California Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the California bear and star over California Republic Est. 1850